How many career welfare mom and dads can I make mad?!..lol?

Question

Some body sent this to me today, it is GREAT!

Best answer to the one who can tell me why this is NOT a good idea and make me somewhat agree with them...

(you better be good if you think you can make me agree)

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Best answer to the one with the best idea to get this made into a standard issued law!

(I sure would like to know who wrote this one!

They deserve a HUGE pat on the back!)

Like a lot of folks in this state, I have a job. I work, they pay me. I pay my taxes and the government distributes my taxes as it sees fit. In order to get that paycheck, I am required to pass a random urine test with which I have no problem. What I do have a problem with is the distribution of my taxes to people who don't have to pass a urine test. Shouldn't one have to pass a urine test to get a welfare check because I have to pass one to earn it for them? Please under stand, I have no problem with helping people get back on their feet. I do, on the other hand, have a problem with helping someone sit on their *** doing drugs, while I work. .. . .

Can you imagine how much money the state would save if people had to pass a urine test to get a public assistance check ? Hope you all will pass it along! Something has to change in this country -- and soon!!

Answer 1

I could not agree more.

I believe they should also have a time limit.

I was on food stamps 2 years ago after loosing my job I told the person managing my case I would be off in a year. (You could tell they did not believe me) When my wife and I handed them our card back at the end of the year you should have seen the look then.

P.S. We just bought a house and moved in. All I needed was a short hand up...not hand out.

Answer 2

I think we can save much more by curbing big tax breaks for oil companies (8-10 billion)  , put things in order in Iraq 10 billion is just missing  etc etc etc

Answer 3

You're really barking up the wrong tree here. Why do you think there are thousands of people out there collecting welfare and doing drugs? You're crazy, most welfare recipients are only collecting checks for a short time between jobs. If you're worried about your tax dollars being wasted, focus on the pointless war in Iraq, huge government subsidies to industry, and real government waste and fraud, instead of harping on such a small percentage of welfare recipients. If they put this into effect, you would STILL pay the same amount of taxes, and welfare would STILL pay out the same sums of money, it's minuscule in the big picture, and a total non-issue

Answer 4

WOW!! I am SO agreeing with you right now!! But if you think about it if they haven't started it now, they're not gonna start it any time soon!

Answer 5

Here is another one that I like to float around lately...

"You incentivize poverty by offering free public assistance. You get lots of women having babies they can`t afford. Should I have said that on the air? What a hatemonger. Did he just really say -- did he just say that people on welfare have, actually, more babies? No, actually, it was the hate-mongers over at the U.S. Census Bureau that said it.

They just released this today. They found out in 2006 the birth rate for women receiving public assistance was three times higher than those not receiving it. You`re on welfare and you`re a woman. You`re three times more likely to have children. Why? Because just as subsidizing ethanol means more ethanol, using welfare to subsidize poverty breeds more poverty."

Answer 6

This isn't the first time I've seen this issue. I agree 100%. I'm passing this along to my Congressman/woman.  

Answer 7

I agree with you, but I'm trying for "Best Answer", so here it goes:

The Constitution protects us against unreasonable searches by the government.  Since the government is the one doling out welfare, they would be the one doing the searching, or at least a 3rd party would be acting as an agent of the government.  

Slavery is illegal, so you do not have to work at your job if you don't want to.  Even if it's a government job.  By accepting the job, you are agreeing to be tested.

This does not apply to welfare recipiants however, because welfare is seen as an entitlement.  If you meet certain criteria, you are entittled to welfare.  The government cannot impose a test in order for you to receive something that you are entitled to.  

So to force someone to even take a drug test, much less pass one, would violate the Constitutional protection of unreasonable search by the government.

Answer 8

I'm kind of a slacker right now because I'm in between jobs and am only working two part time jobs to pay the rent, so I feel like it'd be nice to rip off y'all and the gov't like every other loser does, but I can't think of any reason to justify drug use.

Sorry.

Looks like you win unanimously. Find somebody who can levy it into a law. Don't you have any friends who are lawyers or government type people? I'll ask about it, and see if somebody can tell me how to write a bill. Sure.

Answer 9

I completly agree, I think they should have to pass a back ground check and credit check also.  

Answer 10

And, do we also agree that if someone is "living" off of welfar/food stamps/tanf/hud....ect, ect..That they should not be able to have anymore children until they are able to take care of everything their self?  

Answer 11

I agree and we should start by deporting 20 million illegal immigrants with all their anchor babys who recieve billions off the working tax payers.

Answer 12

and...any women of child bearing age should be made to have norplant to prevent them from churning out babies to get more or my money.

Answer 13

Since the welfare reform signed by Clinton made "career welfare moms and dads" a thing of the past, there is really no need to even suggest this. Unless, of course, you don't know much about how welfare really functions these days.